Around the Clock Care (24 Hour Care)
Your mother has had dementia for years, and your father has been her primary caregiver. You know he’s burned out and now his physical health is showing the impact; he has been hospitalized, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be discharged quickly.
You need help and you need it right away. Your mother can’t be left alone, and you’re torn between your mother who needs constant care and your father who is in hospital.
Our caregivers can provide the help your mother needs, 24/7 around-the-clock care. Our goal is to maintain her routine as much as possible. We’ll aim to keep her engaged in activities and cue her step-by-step to complete various tasks.
Throughout the day, we’ll ensure that all your mother’s personal care needs are met, as well as her social and emotional needs. We will also attend to the household by completing various tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. We’ll aim to have your mother join us while we’re cooking meals, and then we’ll sit with her throughout the meal to inspire her to eat.
When it’s time for bed, we’ll help her to prepare for bed and get her settled. We’ll then remain overnight to ensure she is safe. If she awakens in the night, we’ll reassure her and help her to get settled once again.
Care When They Need It Most
When your father returns home from the hospital, our schedule might change a little, but your parents will still need assistance. Depending upon your father’s care needs, we can schedule a caregiver at the time(s) of day when he needs us most. It is imperative that your father does not revert into his prior habit of being the only caregiver for your mother, while burning himself out in the process.
Your father will need to spend his energy on healing and recovering; we can spend our energy on being a full-time caregiver for his wife.
24 Hour care often includes
Personal care & toileting
Incontinence management
Help with transfers and mobility
Reminders and cueing
Dementia care
Meal preparation
Housekeeping & Laundry
Trusted Care, Right at Home
If you or your loved one could benefit from compassionate, professional support at home, don’t hesitate to reach out. Our dedicated team is here to offer expert care tailored to your family’s unique needs. Contact us today to learn how home care can make a meaningful difference—let us help lighten the load and bring comfort, safety, and peace of mind to your home.
I need urgent 24/7 care. Can Warm Embrace Elder Care help me?
You’ve come to the right place. With our extensive experience, we know exactly how to help, and we can mobilize quickly. We have compassionate caregivers who are already hired and trained and ready to assist.
Here are the next steps:
Call us at: 519-954-2480 so we can understand the crisis you’re managing
We’ll offer you an in-person or remote assessment, depending on your needs and timeline
Paperwork and care plan are completed
Caregivers are scheduled to begin ASAP
How long does it take?
You set the pace. The whole process can be completed within a few hours. Sometimes, it’s spread over a few days if that’s what the family prefers. We will match your pace and mobilize as quickly as you need. Don’t worry, we’ve done this countless times before, and we’ve got you covered.
Dementia Support
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Top 4 Reasons Families Turn to Warm Embrace for 24/7 Care
There are many different situations when 24/7 care is necessary. It can be temporary or ongoing and long term. It can be provided in someone’s private home, condo or apartment, or it may be within a retirement home or assisted living facility, or within hospital or hospice. Wherever the client needs us, we’re honoured to provide around-the-clock care to ensure their needs are met.
After surgery or a prolonged hospital stay, it is important to have sufficient support in place to prevent readmission to the hospital. Having 24/7 care in place while someone recovers from surgery or regains the strength after a long hospital stay can ensure their recovery remains on track.
After the bed rest of hospital, people are often unstable on their feet and nighttime trips to the washroom increase risk for a nighttime fall. Having a caregiver present ensures that nighttime washroom trips are safe and secure.
Many seniors’ resort to bed rest when they are under the weather, and that usually means they fail to eat or drink properly, which can increase risk of further infection (especially a urinary tract infection) and the risk of falling.
Illness + Bedrest + dehydration + lack of nutrition = reduced recovery + risk of UTI + increased risk of falling
That’s not a good equation! Break that cycle by providing the caregiving team required for a strong recovery.
Dementia or Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are both progressive illnesses where new symptoms present as the disease continues to progress. These increasing symptoms require detailed care with constant cueing and reminders.
Often, the most effect interventions are non-pharmaceutical in nature. Having empathetic caregivers to guide each step of the day and monitor overnight safety provides the reassurance to prevent escalating behaviours.
One-on-one care and attention are most effective and can be provided in any location. Allowing someone with dementia or PD to remain in their own home can prevent the decline in abilities and worsening symptoms that often occur after a move.
When a husband and wife each have different needs, they are at risk of being split up into two different locations so each of their needs can be met separately. It could mean one person moving into a retirement home while the other moves to long term care.
Providing 24/7 care at home allows the couple to remain together, in their familiar surroundings of the home they know and love.
They can maintain their routine and lifestyle with the addition of caregivers who help them navigate the challenges presented by their medical conditions. Caregivers ensure the distinct needs of both husband and wife are addressed.
The addition of a caregiving team to their current lifestyle and routine is far less disruptive than moving to two new locations and the separation of a couple who has been together for decades. Around-the-clock care ensures they can remain together, in their own home, following their preferred routines and lifestyle.
If someone is currently living in a retirement home but their health condition has progressed, their needs may exceed what can be provided by the staff at the retirement home. If their needs increase drastically enough, they will be deemed eligible for long term care and will be required to move out of the retirement home, unless additional support is enlisted.
Examples of sudden care needs increasing:
Sudden exit-seeking behaviour
Any behaviour causing disruption to other residents
Incontinence that is not self-managed
Requiring a two-person transfer assist
Requiring a mechanical lift
By providing 24/7 support within a retirement home setting, it allows someone to remain living in the retirement home and not be moved to long term care. This is especially important when someone has lived in the same retirement home for many years and does not want the disruption of moving, or when someone is quite elderly, and a move could have deleterious effects.
Around-the-clock care ensures every need is met immediately and all safety concerns are addressed while allowing someone to remain in the retirement home of their choice.
How Warm Embrace Transforms Lives with 24/7 Care
Post Hospital Discharge
and Recovery
Prevent hospital readmission
Reduce risk of falls after the deconditioning of bedrest
Promote hydration and nutrition
Ensure adherence to doctor’s orders and medication reminders
Support for Dementia or PD
Constant reminders and reassurance
Cueing to guide through daily routines
Support for day-night reversal
Managing expressive behaviours, providing positive redirection
Couples with Differing Needs
Constant reminders and reassurance
Cueing to guide through daily routines
Support for day-night reversal
Managing expressive behaviours, providing positive redirection
Preventing or Delaying LTC
Vigilant oversight for exit-seeking or wandering
Supporting two-person transfer assist
Attending to incontinence or other personal care needs
Managing expressive behaviours for those with dementia
Why Families Trust Warm Embrace for 24/7 Dementia Support
"After Mom, who was suffering from dementia and related anger/depression, fell and broke her hip, we were extremely worried about how we would provide ongoing care for her. The hospital set us up with the wonderful people at Warm Embrace. Mom is very strong-willed and independent and refused to have "strangers" in her home.
Dad was becoming completely overwhelmed. We brought Mom home from the hospital and waited anxiously to see how the first "visit" would go. A big shout out to Linda who knew just how to gain Mom's trust convinced her to use her walker and significantly improved her outlook.
We have been astonished to hear Mom actually giggle during visits with her new "friends!" Thank you so much to everyone at Warm Embrace. You are making an ongoing world of difference to our whole family."
~ Cindy W. ~
Warning Signs that 24/7 Care is Needed:
Frequent falls
Repeated calls to 911 or frequent hospitalizations
Primary caregiving spouse is experiencing their own health problems (often a sign of burn out)
Going for walks and getting lost; being brought home by police, neighbours or good Samaritans.
Evidence of nighttime wandering (drawers rummaged through, home disorganized from night before; security cameras or motion detectors being set off, etc.)
Frequent and excessive phone calls to family expressing anxiety or requiring cueing
Incontinence needs that are not being managed (soiled bed linens that haven’t been changed; disposable underwear that is improperly disposed or being reused)
Retirement home staff are recommending higher levels of care or LTC placement, suggesting a move will be necessary and imminent
Exit-seeking behaviours, especially concerning at night or during inclement weather.
Around-the-clock-care, or 24/7 care, is when continuous care is provided so that a client is never left alone at all. They always have a caregiver with them, or directly available to assist, at all times of day or night.
At Warm Embrace, 24/7 care is provided by a team of caregivers to ensure that each caregiver is fresh and alert and ready for their shift. Caregivers do not move into clients’ homes and live with clients. Our caregivers are established in the community and have homes and families of their own to return to each day.
Shift times and lengths will vary according to each client’s needs and their routine. The average visit time can range from 3 hours to 12 hours. When Warm Embrace commits to providing 24/7 coverage, we take that commitment very seriously and ensure that caregivers are scheduled around the clock, without interruption. Reliability is important and we make sure that constant care is in place, so the client is never left alone.
Your loved one has the undivided attention of caregivers at all times. Their needs are met immediately and their preferences can be accommodated. They have the care they require, in the manner they prefer, in the location of their choosing.
You have peace of mind knowing that your loved one has attentive care at all times.
Not necessarily. Around-the-clock care lasts for as long as your loved one requires that level of care. We have many clients who require 24/7 care temporarily while they recover from surgery or illness, then their care needs are drastically reduced.
Other clients require 24/7 care for months or years, and we provide that care continuously, without interruption. All care plans are customized to match the client and recognize that their needs will fluctuate over time.